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She provides support in their time of need
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They are called in during the worst of times. Day or night, rain or shine, they are there at the side of the road after a serious car crash or after a family has heard that a loved one won’t be coming home. Kim Gramlich heads Delta Police Department’s Victim Services unit. She leads a team of 15 volunteers that helps Delta residents that have been the victim or witness of crime or trauma. They work closely with police officers to provide support as individuals and families cope with stressful and devastating events. They work with some clients for months and even years after an incident, providing court information, updates and support. Gramlich has spent more than 15 years in victim services. She started as a volunteer with Langley cate. RCMP while she was going Q: What is the main thing you would to university and then was hired as that like people to know about Victim unit’s assistant co-ordinator. She spent five Services? years with Langley’s unit before becoming It is not a duplication for the support Delta’s program co-ordinator 12 years ago. they (a victim) receive from family and Q: How did you get involved with vicfriends. While Victim Services workers can tim services? When I was going to university, my mom and do offer emotional support to a victim of crime or trauma, it goes showed me an ad in the much further than that. From paper. Langley RCMP was day one, we provide support. looking for victim services The amount of service provolunteers. I was still not vided is up to each individreally sure what I wanted to ual client. Victim Services do... It sounded really interworks to keep clients esting so I went to an infor- Name: Kim Gramlich involved to the degree that mation session. Employer: Delta Police they want to be involved. Q: What sort of educaQ: As part of your job, tion/training do you have? Position: Victim Services Co-ordinator you deal with a lot of sad, I have an undergraduate emotional circumstances. degree in psychology and a How do you find balance in master’s degree in leadership the rest of your life? and training. Because I have Caber, I have become Q: In 2010, you added Caber, a trauinvolved with PADS (Pacific Assistance ma dog to the unit. What does he bring Dog Society, which breeds, raises, trains to what you do? and places service, hearing and therapy He has the capacity to help people in a dogs with people who have a disability way that a human being can’t. He offers other than blindness). I’m on the board of physical comfort (through petting) and PADS. I do a lot of volunteering myself... I a more immediate connection that can feel that service to community is dwindling take longer to develop between people. and that concerns me. Sometimes people struggle to communi-
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